Habitats & Basic Needs
CONCEPTUALIdentify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and describe how habitats provide for basic needs and how organisms depend on each other
Mastery Evidence
- Define a habitat as a place where an organism lives that provides what it needs
- Give examples of how specific habitats meet organisms' needs (e.g. pond provides water and food for frogs)
- Describe at least one way organisms in a habitat depend on each other (e.g. bees pollinate flowers, flowers feed bees)
Assessment Prompt
“Can [child] explain why a polar bear lives in the Arctic and not in a desert, and how the animals and plants in a habitat help each other?”
Curriculum Standards2 alignments
2-LS4-1Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) K-5codes onlyY2.Sci.LTH.2The national curriculum in Englandidentify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and describe how different habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds of animals and plants, and how they depend on each other
Prerequisites8
- Where Are the Poles?softAges 5—7
- Habitat VocabularyhardAges 6—8
- What Is a Rainforest?softAges 5—7
- What Living Things NeedhardAges 5—7
- What Ocean Animals NeedsoftAges 5—7
- Animal HomessoftAges 5—7
- Living, Dead & Never AlivehardAges 6—7
- Minibeast HabitatssoftAges 5—7
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- Where Are the Poles? soft
Polar regions enrich the curriculum habitats topic (exploratory age 5 -> curriculum age 6)
- Habitat Vocabulary hard
Describing how habitats provide for basic needs requires habitat, environment, conditions, shelter vocabulary
- What Is a Rainforest? soft
Rainforest habitat knowledge enriches the curriculum habitats topic (exploratory age 5 -> curriculum age 6)
- What Living Things Need hard
Must know basic needs of organisms before understanding how habitats provide for those needs
- Living Things Vocabulary soft
Describing what plants and animals need to survive uses life processes vocabulary: nutrition, growth, sensitivity
- Living, Dead & Never Alive hard
Must distinguish living from non-living before understanding habitats that support living things
- Living Things Vocabulary hard
Comparing living, dead, and never-been-alive things requires the life processes vocabulary to give reasons
- Common minibeasts: naming and recognising hard
Must recognise common minibeasts before exploring where each type lives
Unlocks6
- Simple Food ChainshardAges 6—7
- Animal Groups & SurvivalhardAges 8—9
- Upper and Lower EgyptsoftAges 7—9
- Local Plants & AnimalshardAges 6—8
- Variation & Survival AdvantagesoftAges 8—9
- Changing EnvironmentshardAges 8—9